links for 2008-01-31

January 31, 2008

Dawning of the age of the Anthropocene
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: the Anthropocene.From “Are we now living in the Anthropocene?”:
(tags: climate toread environment)
Hiring Technical People » Employment Gaps
I just read Penelope Trunk’s Quit work for a while to have kids. Your career will be just fine.I hope it’s true. I don’t understand how it [...]

links for 2008-01-30

January 30, 2008

Performance reviews are a big fat waste of time
There is a lot of advice out there on how to fix performance reviews but in my opinion, performance reviews would still be worse than uselss, even if we could fix everything that is currently wrong about them and the very fact that companies fell the need
(tags: [...]

links for 2008-01-27

January 27, 2008

The Splendid Table from American Public Media
Zak Rosen celebrates 100 years of Faygo pop, the beloved quirky beverage from Motown.
(tags: michigan faygo local pop cooking food reviews)

Grateful for old friends - gratitude week 4, 2008

Make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver and the other’s gold….
So this week I’m grateful for old friends, the friendships that grow deeper with time and don’t seem to suffer from neglect or distance.

for Dina in New Jersey (pictured with me outside her parents home in Ohio in 1992, friend since probably 1989) who called late [...]

Encountered on the flyleaf of a Shakespeare anthology

Last night we were looking for a Shakespeare sonnet at dinner, so I pulled down The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare: The Complete Works, Annotated from the shelf and opened it to discover this inscription
“To my darling Deedee, Xmas ‘87. The greatest author in the English language! From the greatest Dad.”
I’m Deedee, my dad has been dead [...]

links for 2008-01-26

January 26, 2008

Booksthatmakeyoudumb
Ever read a book (required or otherwise) and upon finishing it thought to yourself, “Wow. That was terrible. I totally feel dumber after reading that.”? I know I have. Well, like any good scientist, I decided to see how well my personal experience matches
(tags: kottke book Facebook funny literature research social stats trends)

links for 2008-01-20

January 20, 2008

5 Boundary-Setting Tips for the Work Obsessed
1. Choose flow-inducing hobbies that really engage you and pull your mind away from work.
2. Set goals in your personal life just like you do in your professional life.
3. Schedule dates with other people for non-work activities.
4. Use tech boundaries
(tags: lifehacks productivity tips leisure personal lifestyle work)

Role: Engagement Manager
The [...]

Winter photography class at Matthaei Botanical Garden

I very much enjoyed today’s Winter Photography Class at Matthaei. It was taught by Mark O’Brien. We had a little bit of instruction and then all went out and wandered together in the winter woods, playing with exposure, watching our batteries drain exceptionally fast, shivering a bit, and having fun. At the end of the [...]

Grateful for time alone - gratitude week 3, 2008

January 19, 2008

This past week my husband was overseas on business. He’s back now, I’m grateful for his safe return and the chocolate he brought, of course, but I’m also grateful for the time apart.

A Sailor’s Suitcase, originally uploaded by Bob AuBuchon.
I am grateful for the little pleasures of having the house to myself: sleeping diagonally across [...]

Mad because I was sick? Or sick because I was mad?

January 14, 2008

So, last week I hit the wall. After standup on Thursday, I paced around the office, feeling my face get red, feeling angry, frustrated, and near tears. I didn’t want anyone to notice this, so I grabbed my coat and stormed around the streets of downtown Ann Arbor until the cold air, the exercise, and [...]